You enter the temple. Around you you see a bunch of totems, with weird colors. It looks like each has a purpose.
There’s writing on the wall, the like of which you’ve never seen before. The language is ancient. You can tell, but you do recognize some symbols.
You see two books on a side table. The cover of one says: conio. The other says iostream. What do these words mean? Two thick, ancient books of spells, you open one
Char will be a set boxes on the side
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Type casting is a spell that converts some form of symbol into another
You have the combination to open the lock. The problem is it gets processed somehow by the mechanism. It gets transformed by a process akin to magic. You see it in front of you. You flash that wand and the spell on the walls get transformed into a pattern that sits on the table (a round table with a mechanical head, which of course only touches the text section. There are two regions a stack ob blocks on the roof, and a stack of blocks on the bottom, On return from a function call the mechanical head looks at the top of the stack to find out where to go next on the head). The mechanical devices then goes through these patterns one by one and does some action. You must figure out what these symbols mean, by observing the device’s actions. You must then figure out how to change the spell to get the device to open the door.
Player can add breakpoints to undertand the workings of the code….
You can label code using secret ink that other hackers can’t see. Hackers escape the maze which is the code by finding vulnerabilities and exploiting to open a portal and leave the game world 🙂 and connect with their alter egos, the hacker sitting on a computer.
points of input are marked?
First challenge: figure out that you can in fact cause the head to execute instructions on the stack side.
You can walk around and use your wand to change the writing on the wall. The writing needs to capture the code structure though.
How can I make the experience of smashing the stack accessible to a non-coder?
Ramblings and Musings 